April 23rd of the lunar calendar is a temple fair in Daxi Town. Are there temple fairs in zeguo town and Wenling? Are there any other places in Taizhou on April 23rd?

There is also a large temple fair in Zeguo on March 3rd, and a small temple fair in Xinhe, but there is no temple fair on April 23rd in other parts of Taizhou. The temple fair is based on the birthday of the temple owner. April 23rd in Daxi is to commemorate Zhang Qixian, a famous figure in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The following is a report by Wenling Daily reporter Huang Xiaohui:

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A: The flame burns to welcome the Olympic Games, and happiness and prosperity celebrate peace.

In recent years, the folk temple fairs in Wenling have gradually revived, among which the temple fair on April 23rd in Daxi Town is well known. The reporter plans to go to see it on April 23 this year (May 27), and the temple fair will start one day earlier than the morning of May 26.

According to the Records of Daxi Town, April 23rd is the birthday of Song Jiushang, the owner of Dong Xiao Temple in Daxi Street. On April 23rd every year, temple fairs are held in four villages: Daxi, Shuicang, Houan and Joey. "Carry the temple god parade during the day, perform at night, set off fireworks, and everyone eats dry cakes. Small vendors took the opportunity to gather and were very lively. In the mid-1950s, the temple fair was changed to material exchange. In the 1980 s, the custom of eating cakes was promoted from Daxi Street to the countryside. " (A Record of Daxi Town, Society and Customs at the Age of)

Like other places in Wenling, the temple fair in Daxi on April 23rd was held by several related villages in turn. Shuicang village is the year end this year, and most of the people carrying ceremonial banners and colorful flags are villagers in Shuicang village. Two men dressed as ancient soldiers rode in front, followed by two villagers, holding banners of "Welcome the Olympics and celebrate the birthday of Jiushangshu in Song Dynasty".

The reporter found that some folk art performance teams have almost become professional performance teams, which are found in many temple fairs all over the country, such as Dragon Dance, Gunba Man, Boat Race in the Lake, Taige Team, Pan Lang gongs and drums in Pan Lang Village, etc., which were invited from the backstage village of Shiqiaotou Town. The reporter met these teams at Zeguo Temple Fair on March 3rd.

Old Jiang, who played drums for the Dragon Dance Team at the temple fair, told reporters that they were invited to perform. Men, women and children 100 people, starting from Shiqiaotou at 5 am. "We have been invited to attend the temple fair on April 23rd for six consecutive years. Unfortunately, some of the original things in Wenling are afraid of being lost, such as walking on stilts. "

When the parade passed the street, the citizens lined up on both sides of the street to welcome it. Every time the parade goes to a village, the local villagers warmly welcome it. There are rice carvings of the zodiac, various Chinese herbal medicines, various flowers, whole grains and precious jade ... People pile all kinds of treasures on the Eight Immortals table, and two folk artists sing a row of streets on both sides of the table with bamboo boards, and sing out the "treasures" on the table one by one.

In Hou 'an Village, the reporter also found that the villagers used amaranth seeds to "write" the names of the five mountains "Tai, Heng, Song, Heng, Hua", "Guotai Min 'an, Good Weather" and "Unity is Strength, Earthquake Relief" on porcelain plates, praying for Guotai Min 'an.

In the sound of firecrackers, two Huanglongs in the backstage village circled and exulted, and eight kinds of wild animals, such as "rolling eight barbarians" lion, unicorn, rhinoceros, lion roar and unicorn, galloped on the field, and the lion dance performed by students of Yandangshan martial arts school in Yueqing was even more thrilling. Before the lion dance, they had a martial arts performance. After dancing with the two lions, they finally stood up and spit out two big red banners from their mouths, which read "Flame burns to welcome the Olympic Games, Daxi gets rich and celebrates peace", pointing out the theme of this traditional temple fair.

B: The origin of Zhang Qixian, a famous figure in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Daxi Temple Fair.

Mr. Lin, a local official, told reporters that Shangshu in Song Dynasty was the famous Zhang Qixian in Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhendong Temple was built by Wang Juhou, the grandfather of Wang Ju An, a famous minister in the Southern Song Dynasty. According to Zhang Hewang's textual research on the famous courtiers' temples in the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang's ancestors had studied in Germany. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, he became an official in Dali Temple and later gave up his official residence in Shishui Lane, Hangzhou. In the Five Dynasties, his family moved out of Hangzhou, separated from eastern Zhejiang, and settled in Huangyan, Ningchuan, with his third son from Germany. Wang Juan's grandfather Wang Juhou moved from Ning Chuan to Daxi (then Huangyan County) in Fangyan Township.

Wang Juhou moved from Huangyan to Tahiti, Wenling, and brought his people's original belief in the Book of Commerce in the Song Dynasty to Tahiti. From generation to generation, the unique custom tradition of Daxi Temple Fair on April 23rd was formed.

Zhang Qixian (943- 10 14), a native of Caozhou, was born at the age of three, and his family moved to Luoyang. When he was young, he was lonely and poor, and he was very interested in learning. Until he was 42 years old, he was still wearing cloth. In 976 AD, he toured Luoyang, the western capital, and made suggestions as a cloth in front of the horse. He was called into the palace, where he repeated 10 things, such as pointing to painting the land, "going down to Fen", "enriching the people", "feudalism", "mourning the filial piety" and "promoting the virtuous". Mao praised four of them, but Zhang Qixian firmly believed that the other six were also feasible. Mao was furious and let the samurai pull him out. When Mao returned to Bianjing, he felt that all the ten strategies were reasonable, so he said to his younger brother, "When I went there, I only met one talent. I don't want to give him an official title, and I will leave it to you as a relative to help you one day. "

In the second year of Taiping and Xingguo (AD 977), Zhang Qixian and Lv Mengzheng got the first place together. Later, with his own talent and emperor experience, he rose step by step until "four houses (Privy Council, Intermediate People's Court), nine houses and eight seats (servant shooting, Tang envoy, six ministers)" (taking "continuing to manage history as a mirror").

According to relevant data, when Zhang Qixian was in another state, he knew how to promote advantages and eliminate disadvantages, so he was trapped in Su Min. In the second year of Duangong (AD 989), Prime Minister Zhao Pu fell ill. He wrote to Emperor Taizong, asking him to appoint Zhang Qixian as prime minister. In the second year of Chunhua (AD 99 1), at the age of 57, Zhang Qixian was admitted as an assistant minister of the official department as an agreement. Zhang Qixian not only made achievements in politics, but also was resourceful in military affairs, and made many meritorious military achievements. Moreover, he has made great achievements in literature, such as "Old News of Luoyang Gentry" and "The Story of Filial Piety and Zhongxing", which are all praised by the world. Qi Xian died in the summer of 10 14 (the seventh year of Xiang Fu in the Song Dynasty).

Generally, people who do good things for the people in history will be remembered by the people. Because of their contribution in history, Zhang Qixian was honored as the "Shangshu of Song Dynasty" by later generations, and built a temple to offer sacrifices.

People piled all kinds of treasures on the Eight Immortals table, and two folk artists sang a row of streets on both sides of the table with bamboo boards, singing the "treasures" on the table one by one.